Almost 44 million Americans now live below the poverty line, and 21 percent of all U.S. children are growing up poor.

The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples.

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has pledged a seat in a New York Catholic school for any child who wants it.

Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.

The governor-elect has promised to improve governance in one of Mexico’s most impoverished states.

If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.

International campaigners see Quebec as a vulnerable beachhead for legalizing euthanasia in Canada.

The association was formed in part to voice opposition to the new English-language translation of the Mass.

The Rev. Robert Barron, right, a priest, teacher and evangelist, is launching “Word on Fire With Father Barron,” a weekly national program on WGN America.